Professor
Paul S. Beatty
Independent
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2024
Paul Beatty is the author of the novels, Tuff, Slumberland and The White Boy Shuffle, and the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He was the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. In 2016, he became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout.
In addition, Beatty is a Professor of Writing at Columbia University.
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